Bilingual robots in Basel

Jackie Leach Scully will be moderating a one-day conference on MaschinenMenschen at the Bioscience Centre, University of Basel, Switzerland, on Saturday 12 May 2012. The latest in a series of annual meetings on "Science and Fiction in Dialogue", this year's meeting is on the topic of robots. Other internationally recognised speakers include Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, on humanoid robots, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University, on robot bodies. The conference is held in both English and German and is open to experts and to the general public.